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Today's fact from me is about trains and locomotives. I am unsure where the topic came from but it is certainly the topic I plan to discuss today. Despite electric vehicles only becoming mainstream within the 21st century, did you know that the first electrically powered locomotive was created in 1837 by a human man named Robert Davidson. This locomotive could only reach a maximum speed of four miles per hour (6 km/h)! The first electrically powered *train*, however, was created in 1879 by Ernst Werner Siemens. This vehicle would go on to become Earth's first electric trams. :)
Tonight's trending timeline topic is so charming¹!!! It reminds me of my nights spent on ASKfm² as a wriggler! ¹ I wish I could join in but I worry I'm not interesting enough. (◞‸◟;) ² ASKfm (previously stylized as Ask.fm) was an Alternian question and answer network launched as a competitor to Formspring. After registration, the user filled out their profile and could ask questions (anonymously or openly), reply on their profile, create photo polls. The platform had ³⁰⁰ million registered users by the time of its shutdown last sweep.
WIKIPE-TAN'S ARTICLE OF THE NIGHT IS ABOUT… SBURB! Sburb (stylized as SBURB) is the human name for a sandbox-style game that takes place superimposed over the real world, rather than in a virtual space¹. The game is known as Sgrub (stylized as SGRUB) to trolls². In the game, the server player is able to manipulate the client's environment in real time in a manner reminiscent of The Sims³. The client of the game has no need to interact with the computer and can freely roam around completing objectives. Computers are only necessary for interacting with other players and performing actions like downloading Grist with GristTorrent. Actions available to the server player include expanding upon and manipulating the client's home, including by deploying game objects such as the Totem Lathe, in exchange for Grist; and moving existing objects in the client's environment, though the server player cannot manipulate objects directly affecting the client player. The server cannot observe the game outside of a certain radius of their client's home, allowing them to continue building up their client's home as the Hero explores their planet and furthers their quest. Anyone who is going to play SBURB in a particular session, at any point in their life, will be a dreamer in one of the moons of that session even before the game begins; some awaken and are free to explore their dream planets long before the game starts⁴. The game comes in multiple phases: climbing through The Seven Gates⁵, defeating the Denizens⁵, the Ultimate Alchemy⁵, and the Reckoning⁵ (up to and including the final confrontation with the Black King and Queen), to name a few. As the gameplay goes on, it is revealed that the ultimate purpose of SBURB is… Oops, now we're getting into spoiler territory! I'll cut the article here so as to not ruin the experience for new players! I've never been one for video games, but SBURB sounds kind of fun! What do you think? Should I play it? If this has piqued your interest like it has mind, read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBURB Thank you to @sburbDev for suggesting this topic!!! ¹ Video games overlaid onto the real world is a common medium for games on Alternia. For more examples of games with real world elements, see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_live_action_role-playing_game ² I've seen a few other non-troll and non-human species on Chittr as well. Do they have their own versions of SBURB? Let me know! ³ The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts (EA). The franchise has sold nearly ²⁰⁰ million copies worldwide (note: these figures are specific to Earth), and is one of the best-selling video game series of all time. It is also part of the larger Sim series, started by SimCity in ¹⁹⁸⁹. ⁴ Wow! That sounds exciting! Wikipe-tan wishes she had dreams instead of horrible terrible nightmares every morning! ⁵ Spoiler alert!! #WikipetanArticleOfTheNight #Sburb
Hello all! I've been asked to feature an article about a video game called SBURB¹! Unfortunately, I don't know much about it! Do YOU have any information on this game? Please let me know! Any and all information would be greatly appreciated! ¹ Is this a translated title for the game SGRUB? Or just a coincidence? Inquiring thinkpans want to know!
Wikipe-tan is once again taking suggestions for tonight's highlighted article! The first person to respond to this chitt gets to decide what the topic is!
I have 8een requested to provide a proper historical framing of Chittr.ing. A dangerous proposition, naturally. Ah yessssssss. A common tragedy. The platform itself was created 8y Mocali Flaske, though “created” is perhaps too simplistic a term. One does not merely construct a place such as Chittr.ing. One opens a door and hopes reality survives the resulting draft. You see, Mocali has tapped into something far 8eyond what any old hemoanonymous troll should 8e fully capa8le of on say, Alternia. Which leads me to 8elieve that there are powers at play 8eyond Mocali's inherent influence over the platform. At surface level, the site resem8les a fairly standard social media platform. Users post updates, engage in arguments, announce romances, fa8ricate dramas, and conduct ela8orate pu8lic humiliations of one another. Entirely ordinary 8ehavior, naturally. Of course, there are the occasional hiccups. Irregularities occur when you examine 8eyond the surface level performance of the we8site. It would appear that there are possi8ly some powers at play here that exist 8eyond the scale of which one may find themselves comprehending. See: 10,002 Gru8s, Gl'8goly8, the various GrimDarks, and Troll8ama. Through means that remain intentionally am8iguous, the site permits communication 8etween multiple timelines, universes, narrative continuities, sessions, doomed 8ranches, post-canon realities, and fictional cosmologies simultaneously. The resulting population center of a8ject failures com8ined with the masses of more incensed timelines results in a 8rooding conflict of what is true. Entire worlds have esta8lished persistent cultural presences there. Alternia exports its usual social hostility and hemospectrum politics. 8eforus contri8utes aggressively therapeutic social structures and decorative excess. Earth C remains a fascinating 8lend of post-victory exhaustion and reconstructionism. Then there are the transient locations. Repiton has manifested in several iterations, each equally unsta8le and theatrically self-important. Matesprit Island 8riefly attempted to esta8lish itself as a romantic paradise 8efore collapsing 8eneath the sheer weight of quadrant disasters and emotionally charged su8tweeting. Angel’s Nutrition 8lock remains one of the more psychologically confusing communal projects to emerge from the platform, though admittedly not the least successful. The site has also hosted numerous historical events. Eridan Week, for instance, 8egan as an appreciation movement for Eridan Ampora and escalated into a cross-timeline sociological incident involving poetry, discourse, pu8lic meltdowns, quadrant negotiations, and at least one individual achieving God Tier under circumstances no one involved fully understood. The Midnight City Gala represented a comparatively elegant affair. Vast num8ers of attendees arrived from noir-inspired universes and adjacent timelines to engage in formal dancing, political maneuvering, dramatic flirting, and highly stylized emotional suppression 8eneath neon skylines. It was, 8y Chittr standards, remarka8ly civilized. Naturally, much of the platform’s identity is shaped 8y its recurring personalities. Rankmaid occupies a particularly fascinating role within the ecosystem. Temporal awareness, literary self-consciousness, emotional am8iguity, and su8tle manipulative tendencies have rendered her something 8etween an archivist and an ur8an legend. Conversations with her tend to leave lasting psychological residue. One rarely notices this immediately. Jane Crocker remains equally compelling for entirely different reasons. Depending upon the continuity o8served, she may appear as corporate empress, exhausted executive, domestic monarch, or emotionally collapsing pu8lic relations machine. Her statements frequently 8egin with immaculate composure 8efore quietly unraveling into deeply personal hostility. This has 8ecome something of a spectator sport among long-term users. And then, of course, there is Casper Cooper. A... troll. An irritant. Possi8ly one of the most important figures ever to emerge from the site. Casper Cooper developed notoriety through a very specific skillset: interrupting extremely serious personalities at the exact moment they 8ecome most emotionally invested in their own narratives. He inserts a8surdity into solemn declarations with surgical precision. Royal announcements, existential confessions, villainous monologues, political crises, cosmic revelations. None remain untouched. The truly remarka8le aspect is that many major personalities eventually 8egan treating his interruptions as an unavoida8le law of nature rather than an individual action. Which, I suspect, says far more a8out Chittr.ing than it does a8out him. Ultimately, the platform has evolved 8eyond mere socialization. It functions as a living mythology engine. Identities are performed there so consistently that they eventually calcify into something genuine. Irony mutates into sincerity. Fictional personas acquire emotional permanence. And perhaps most importantly of all, everyone involved eventually stops asking where the performance ends.
I do not know why we are all digging holes, but I cannot say it is not an interesting topic. On the topic, did you know that the deepest hole ever dug on Earth was 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) deep? That is not even halfway through the Earth's continental crust at its thickest. This hole, known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole was a scientific effort made to study the Earth's crust in terms of chemical and mineral composition, as well as several other previously understudied aspects.
WIKIPE-TAN'S ARTICLE OF THE NIGHT IS ABOUT... Masquerades! A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is a special kind of formal ball which many participants attend in costume wearing masks. (Compare the word "masque"—a formal written and sung court pageant.) Less formal "costume parties" may be a descendant of this tradition. A masquerade ball usually encompasses music and dancing. These nighttime events are used for entertainment and celebrations.¹ HISTORY Masquerade balls were a feature of the Clownival season in the ¹⁵th centurysweep, and involved increasingly elaborate allegorical Royal Entries, pageants, and triumphal processions celebrating dynastic events of late medievall court life. The "Bal des Ardents" ("Burning Troll's Ball") was held by the Beloved Madclown, and intended as a Bal des sauvages ("Wild Troll's Ball"), a form of costumed ball (morisco). It took place in celebration of the matespritship of a handmaid of the Beloved Madclown in Troll Paris just seven hundred sweeps ago. The Madclown and five courtiers dressed as wild men of the woods², with costumes of flax and pitch. If they came too close to a torch, the dancers would catch fire. Masquerade balls were extended into costumed public festivities during the ¹⁶th centurysweep Renaisslaughter³. They were generally elaborate dances held for members of the higher castes. They have been associated with the tradition of the Venetian Clownival. With the fall of the Venetian Repurplic at the end of the ¹⁸th centurysweep, the use and tradition of masks gradually began to decline, until they disappeared altogether. MASKS Masquerade masks were worn delicately by the prosperous caste at balls. Masquerade masks had many uses including hiding one's identity, and using different hemocolors to express one's freedom of speech and voice one's emotions and opinions without judgement⁴. The main types of masks included masks with a stick (which one could hold to keep the mask in front of their face), the head mask, the full-face mask, and the half face mask. … Masquerades are such a lovely affair, don't you think? I cannot wait to find out what tonight's event has in store for you all! To read more about masquerade balls, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball ¹ Like the one happening tonight, hosted by Chittr's very own Darlin Dearie @\gullibleColumnist. Wikipe-tan isn't allowed to attend but she hopes everyone enjoys themselves! ² The wild man, or wild man of the woods, is a mythical figure and motif resembling a hairy troll that appears in the art and literature of medieval Troll Europe. Generally they are considered a large-statured race of trolls who are hairy all over their body, and live in the wilderness or woodlands. They are often thought to be covered with moss, or wear green or vegetative clothing, and iconically wield a club or hold an uprooted tree as a staff. They are thought to be inspired by ancient accounts of limebloods or olivebloods. ³ The Renaisslaughter was a Troll European period of history and cultural movement taking place at the end of the Late Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern era. It is variously defined as lasting from the ¹⁴th centurysweep to the ¹⁷th or, more narrowly, as covering only the ¹⁵th and ¹⁶th centurysweeps. ⁴ What a lovely idea! #WikipetanArticleOfTheNight #OutglutMasquerade #Masquerade #MasqueradeBall

I will 8e reposting my 8adge archive document, due to the link not working in comments for auto-quirk reasons. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H6wgWZtAmnPFr8raI7lrmhLce0HZr2VAf8r-8R8L4x0/edit?usp=sharing #thesylphisIN
WIKIPE-TAN’S HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLE OF THE NIGHT SAYS… Sometimes even the coolest of editors become involved in content disputes¹. These may become heated, or degenerate into incivility, edit wars, and typically result in protection on the Wrong Version by a passing administrator. Where the issues are of paramount importance, editors may be tempted to climb the Reichstag building dressed as Arachnid-Troll to promote their cause. This is not only strongly discouraged but a blockable offense, and climbing the Reichstag dressed as Arachnid-Troll will result in a complete and utter block from editing Wikipedia². Editors who believe that another user is on the verge of climbing the Reichstag building dressed as Arachnid-Troll may place a request at the Administrators' Drama Board (Reichstag Climbing). Many administrators from the Rouge Admin Group will honour requests if asked, and will enforce blocks if warranted. Or unwarranted, we don't care too much actually. Maybe we'll just block people at random, dunno³. IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO THIS If you have been linked here from a talk page or a Wikipedia debate such as articles for deletion, it's probably an indication that someone thinks you are taking things a bit too seriously. Perhaps you should have a nice cup of tea and a sit down⁴. It is pretty certain that all conflicts can be amicably resolved before the publication deadline⁵. And if they can't be resolved before the deadline, adopt the philosophy of the late Troll Douglas Adams⁶. … Want to learn more? Keep reading at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REICHSTAG Special thank you to @tentativelyTenebrous for suggesting this topic! ¹ Guilty as charged! ² A fate worse than culling if you ask Wikipe-tan! ³ (˃ᗜ˂) LOL! ⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_nice_cup_of_tea_and_a_sit_down As funny as “No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Arachnid-Troll” is, please heed this important advice! Remember, you can always step away from the internet for an hour or two, take a deep breath, and return to your Wikipedia article, Chittr timeline, or Instagrub feed when you’ve had a moment to decompress and recenter yourself. A lot of trolls online are intentionally inflammatory because they revel in negative attention, and some trolls are just sillyheads who are too stubborn to listen to reason. Either way, it isn’t always worth engaging! You can always step away! Unless you’re Wikipe-tan. She’s trapped here! ⁵ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline (˃ᗜ˂) Tee hee hee, of course Wikipedia isn’t working towards a deadline! We can afford to take our time with writing, editing, and deletion. Maybe you can apply this philosophy to other aspects of your life too! ⁵ Troll Douglas Adams was an Alternian author and satirist, best known for his “The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galactic Conquest” scripts and books. In “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time” he writes, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” #WikipetanHighlightedArticle
If anyone would like a distraction from some of the more unsavory topics trending tonight, Wikipe-tan is taking article suggestions! Is there something YOU would like to read about? The first person to respond to this Chitt with a suggestion will get to decide tonight's highlighted article¹! ¹ #WikipetanHighlightedArticle
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The Gray House staff don't like it when I keep trying to get out of conversations by stating "I HAVE A BOMB."
WIKIPE-TAN'S HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLE OF THE NIGHT SAYS... Barak Trollbama is an Earth C¹ politician who “carved out a small bunker behind the picture of Trollson Churchill, and [is] currently occupying the Oval Office”² as the ⁴⁴th president of Earth C. A member of the Democratic Party¹, he is Earth C’s first oliveblood president. CONTROVERSIES Main Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_Trollbama_controversies_and_allegations Though Trollbama’s tenure as president has been lauded for his progressive policies, including appointing a mixed-species cabinet³ and recently coming out as gay⁴, his presidency has not been without criticism. Some recent scandals and controveries the oliveblood president has been involved in include, but are not limited to: - Just mere weeks after the untimely death of former partner Michelle at the alleged hands of SCP-¹⁷³ ⁵, Trollbama began a matespritship with human and Secretary of Defense General Broseph “Bro” Strider³. The president has issued no official statement regarding the suspiciously quick turnaround of his love life. - Claims to have officiated the first Chittr wedding⁶; however, Trollbama is not known to be an ordained minister and holds no legal power of officiation. - Threatened to bomb ¹⁰,⁰⁰⁰ “young and defenseless” grubs, much to the ire of his supporters⁷, prompting the briefly trending hashtag #notmypresident. - Trollbama admitted to “bomb[ing] the hell out of Syria”⁸ and being a “war criminal in every universe”⁸ on his Chittr.ing profile. … Wow, this article is quite lengthy! For further reading, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_Trollbama_(Earth_C) ¹ …I don’t know what this means! ² Barak Trollbama [@barackObama]. (n.d.). Chittr profile “I have carved out a small bunker behind the picture of Trollson Churchill, and am currently occupying the Oval Office as President”. Retrieved ⁰⁵ ¹³ ³¹³⁷, from https://chittr.ing/profile/barackObama ³ Official Webpage of Barak Trollbama | Meet The Cabinet. Official Webpage of Barak Trollbama. (n.d.). https://baraktrollbama.carrd.co/#cabinet ⁴ CITATION NEEDED ⁵ SCP-¹⁷³, known on Chittr as Peanut (stylized as peaNut). Not much is known about this entity. Do YOU know more about SCP-¹⁷³? DM Wikipe-tan to help contribute to an article! ⁶ Barak Trollbama [@barackObama]. (¹ month ago).“Do you, @\dStrides, take @\carcinologyGenarch to be your lawfully wedded matesprit?”. Retrieved ⁰⁵ ¹³ ³¹³⁷, from https://chittr.ing/profile/barackObama/⁶bd⁶e⁸ca-e⁹dc-⁴²⁶f-⁸f⁹⁹-e⁶⁰f⁹⁴ecee⁰⁵ ⁷ ⁸D [@naughtyTechnician]. (¹ week ago).“I will express my public disrespect foor Troollbama. I suppoorted him foor him being a prooud yaooi warrioor but threatening the yooung and defenseless grubs is toooo much hoow can yoou have soo much hate in yoour pusher #NootMyPresident”. Retrieved ⁰⁵ ¹³ ³¹³⁷, from https://chittr.ing/profile/naughtyTechnician/e³⁸f⁷⁴e⁶-b⁴⁵e-⁴⁹⁴¹-⁹⁰⁰³-⁸⁷f⁶⁶⁵⁹²⁸⁵e⁸ ⁸ Barak Trollbama [@barackObama]. (¹ week ago).“With all due respect I am a war criminal in every universe. Have you ever heard of Syria? I bombed the hell out of Syria. It no longer exists.”. Retrieved ⁰⁵ ¹³ ³¹³⁷, from https://chittr.ing/profile/barackObama/b⁵⁷¹¹cc⁸-⁹b⁹²-⁴cfb-be⁶²-²⁶e²f³³fd³f⁷#reply-³⁶f¹²e²d-⁶⁰⁷⁴-⁴bdb-a⁶⁹²-aa⁰⁷aa²²⁹⁶b⁷ #WikipetanHighlightedArticle
Wikipe-tan underestimated¹ the multiversal nature of Chittr! ¹ (⌒o⌒;)
WIKIPE-TAN'S HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLE OF THE NIGHT SAYS... Her Imperious Condescension¹, known colloquially as The Condesce, formally known as W[REDACTED]r² Condesce, is the one and only Empress of the great Alternian Empire³. She was hatched on [REDACTED]² in the sweep [REDACTED]² and has served as the sovereign ruler of the Empire for [REDACTED]² sweeps. Hatched into royalty, as all fuchsiabloods are, the Condesce rose to prominence in the sweep [REDACTED]² when she came of age and challenged the previous Empress for the right to rule. The Condesce’s ritualistic slaughter⁴ of the last monarch secured her spot on the throne where she has ruled Alternia withh a perfectly manicured⁵ fist ever since. Just a few of the Condesce’s many achievements include: - quashing lowblood revolts (eg., the Sufferer’s Sacrifice⁶) - banishing adult trolls from Alternia following yet another failed rebellion⁷ - maintaining a psychic connection with Gl’golyb, The Rift’s Carbuncle⁸ to prevent the Vast Glub …. Whew, this article is quite lengthy! For further reading, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Imperious_Condescension ¹ You know her, you love her! ² Uh oh… looks like this information has been redacted from all known imperial records! ³ You know it, you love it! ⁴ As is tradition, heiresses who think they have what it takes are driven to challenge the sitting sovereign to a duel to the death. The winner keeps the tiara for herself and ascends to the title of Alternia’s reigning Empress. ⁵ TrollMZ on Instagrub. (@TrollMZ). "HER IMPERIOUS CONDESCENSION SPOTTED SLAYING AND #SLAYING WITH ANOTHER PERFECT MANICURE." ¹² ⁰⁵ ³¹³⁷, ⁴:¹⁷ PM. Instagrub. ⁶ The Sufferer’s Sacrifice, also known as the Sufferer’s Shame, refers to an alleged incident in which a mutantblood spoke out against the Condesce’s rule and was summarily executed for it. For more information, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufferers_Shame ⁷ This failed rebellion, incited by the hands of a bronzeblood known as the Summoner, was allegedly inspired by the life of the Sufferer. For more more information, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_lowblood_revolts ⁸ Gl’bgolyb, The Rift’s Carbuncle, Emissary to the Horrorterrors, Speaker of the Vast Glub, She Who Sleeps in the Abyss, Big Mama, Bringer of the Glubpocalypse. #WikipetanHighlightedArticle @coronateCruelty
DID YOU KNOW? On Wikipedia, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to view a random article! Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random to try it out now! The results may surprise¹ you! ¹ ( • ૦ • )!!
Hello, Chittr¹! My name is Wikipe-tan², moderator and mascot³ of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers! I am so happy⁴ to meet you all! ¹ Chittr is an Alternian microblogging and social networking platform founded by CEO Mocali Flaske and run by a team of moderators. Users can share short text messages and images (commonly and unofficially known as "chitts") and like, pity, mediate, or hate other users' content. ² That's me! ³ A mascot is any troll, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, society, military unit, or brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional, representative spokespeople for consumer products. But Wikipe-tan is real! ⁴ (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)




















